I unintentionally saw Life Chicken Soup on TVBS-Asia for the first time last evening and found it a rather unusual programme. It’s an interactive talk show where Ling Ji, a medium who has the ability to see a person’s past and present life, offers advices to troubled individuals by analysing who they were in their past lives. According to her, what happens in our current life is an effect of what we did, or what happened to us in our previous life.

For example, there was a guy in his late 20s who has a personality problem. Apparently, he is an easy target for swindlers because he is infantile and has a low EQ. He doesn’t have any ideas on how to plan ahead in life and so his family members are worried about his future. Ling Ji read that he was an orphan in his previous life and was working in the orphan home even as an adult. He was eventually killed at the home because of the war. As a result, he has come to his current life feeling lost because his life was abruptly cut off in his previous life.

Then there was this lady who has a problem with her grown up son. He has left home and has not returned to see her for five years. Ling Ji recounted that her son was actually her husband in her previous life, which was kind of freaky to me. Anyway, in their previous life, he married into her better off family but was much detested by all. He eventually died because she abandoned him when he was bedridden. As such, she was responsible for his death and has to pay for this in her present life. This is the reason why her son is now unfilial to her.

It was also mentioned that some illnesses or discomforts that we have in this life could be a result of what happened to us in our previous life. The host cited a case of a girl who has gastric problem because she died of starvation in her previous life and recommended that the mother teach the girl to learn cooking to work round this problem.

I thought the concept was very interesting. Perhaps because I’m a believer of karma and reincarnations. You sow what you reap holds a lot of weight for me, and I often wonder what sort of a character I was in my previous life. I hope I did not commit any heinous crime. Maybe some petty crimes which has caused me to have menstrual cramps, bad vision and backaches. Haha. I certainly don’t mind getting a reading from Ling Ji, but meantime, I still need to find out so what do I do? Aha, go and get some leads from here. And this is the answer I got.

In My Past Life…

I was: A kind philosopher. Where I Lived: Tibet. How I Died: Constipation.